Enterprise collaboration platform Slack disclosed a data breach, hackers stole some of its private source code repositories. The enterprise collaboration platform Slack has announced to have suffered a security breach, threat actors have stolen some of its private source code repositories. The company pointed out that its customers were not affected. “We recently became aware […]
Slack is resetting passwords for approximately 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when users created or revoked a shared invitation link for their workspace Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation […]
Experts warn of malware campaigns delivering the BazarLoader malware abusing popular collaboration tools like Slack and BaseCamp. Since January, researchers observed malware campaigns delivering the BazarLoader malware abusing popular collaboration tools like Slack and BaseCamp. The campaigns aimed at employees of large organizations, the messages attempt to trick the victims that they contain important information […]
Slack addressed a critical flaw within 24 hours from its disclosure, the issue allowed attackers to carry out automate account takeover. The researcher Evan Custodio discovered a critical vulnerability in Slack that could have allowed attackers to launch automate account takeover. Slack addressed the vulnerability within 24 hours it was reported by the researcher, the […]
Slack is resetting passwords for accounts belonging to users that have not secured them after the data breach suffered by the company in 2015. Slack announced it is resetting passwords for accounts belonging to users that have not secured them after the data breach suffered by the company in 2015. “In response to new information […]
A recently patched flaw in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by attackers to steal and manipulate a targeted user’s downloaded files. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services, Security researcher David Wells from Tenable discovered a critical flaw in version 3.3.7 of the Slack desktop app […]
Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Slack announced today to launch encryption keys that will help businesses to protect their data. Staying safe is the toughest job in this risky online world. With the exponential growth of online threats, companies are working days and nights to […]
Malware researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a new piece of malware dubbed SLUB that leverages GitHub and Slack for C&C communications. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new backdoor dubbed SLUB that abuse GitHub and Slack for command and control (C&C) communications. According to the experts, the SLUB backdoor (Backdoor.Win32.SLUB.A) was only […]
A bug in the popular Slack application could be exploited by attackers to steal an access token and take over a user account. A serious flaw in the popular work chat application Slack could be exploited to take over a user account. The vulnerability was discovered by bug bounty hunter Frans Rosen who demonstrated that is possible […]
Developers often ignore that they are exposing sensitive data when they publish code containing their Slack access tokens on GitHub. It was the year 2015, the month of March when Slack officially posted the following statement on their corporate blog: “there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information. We have since […]